Henry Kissinger

My thanks to Code Pink for calling for Henry Kissinger’s arrest for war crimes during Thursday’s Senate Armed Service Committee hearing. Committee Chairman John McCain’s thanking Henry Kissinger for his distinguished service to his country indicates that he approved of Kissinger's foreign policy efforts, which left a trail of blood from Cambodia/Laos/Vietnam to Chile/Argentina to Greece/Cyprus to Bangladesh. McCain should think again before he calls conscientious Americans scum. Readers might reference "The Trial of Henry Kissinger," "Nixon, Kissinger and the Destruction of Cambodia," "The Price of Power: Kissinger...

The Associated Press on Wednesday sued the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
The legal action follows repeated requests filed under the...

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain kicked protesters out of a committee hearing Thursday, calling them "low-life scum" as they hollered for the arrest of one of the witnesses, former secretary of state Henry Kissinger.Shortly...

Three potential Republican presidential contenders parried on issues including Cuba policy and the qualities necessary to win the White House during a Sunday night panel discussion that also afforded an unprecedented, if limited, peek into the workings of...

When kids lose their way, it's mom who sets them straight.
Father, forgive us. But mama knows.
Imagine the trouble that could be avoided if only leaders could and would listen to their mothers, accepting their gifts of both wisdom and the confidence...

"TRUTH IS a point of view, authenticity can't be faked," says producer/entrepreneur Peter Guber.
SITTING IN Le Veau d'Or the other night, who should come drifting in but the tall and terrific star of "Interstellar." It's the movie...

"AMERICA IS the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." -- Oscar Wilde
SPEAKING OF decadence, that word has been used and overused, but perhaps not without cause in the fabulous 1970s.
From 1973...

"ONE OF the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he could do what he was afraid he couldn't do." -- Henry Ford
A LOT of money changed hands this weekend. Many people had to fork over cash, buy dinners, roll...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner HenryKissinger underwent heart surgery at a New York City hospital on Tuesday and was resting comfortably, hospital officials said.
Kissinger, 91,...

Robert S. Strauss, a one-time chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a Washington insider who combined earthy Texas charm with raw political power, died Wednesday. He was 95.
A spokesman for Strauss' Washington law firm, Akin Gump Strauss...

Last week, Stephen Colbert spun a last-minute cancellation by Daft Punk attributed to a conflicted appearance on the MTV VMAs into comedy gold. The well-publicized debacle sparked at least one giant viral hit and even

Sure, the president was on “The Tonight Show” Tuesday, but it was Stephen Colbert who easily had the most memorable moment of the night.
To celebrate his annual summer concert series, “StePhest Colbchella '013,” the host donned tube socks and...

Elizabeth Taylor, the glamorous queen of American movie stardom, whose achievements as an actress were often overshadowed by her rapturous looks and real-life dramas, has died. She was 79. Hospitalized six weeks ago for congestive heart failure, Taylor...

White House tapes released Tuesday capture Richard Nixon as a pugnacious second-term president who talks of hammering out an end to the Vietnam War even if he has to "cut off the head" of the South Vietnamese leader, remarks that an abortion...